MUSIC: It's Alive! Our music section is back.

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Our music section is being shocked back to life this week, with new music guru Dionysis Metalcult manning the electrodes!

We'll continue our weekly show listings and band profiles, and will soon add live coverage of shows.

Dionysis (aka Dennis Warren) is an underground recording artist and entertainer with Galax, Va.-based heavy metal band Cult of Dionysis. He founded the band in 2006 and is the drummer/vocalist.

He is also writer/artist for the band's underground comic book series, Metalcult Comix — putting him at the perfect nexus of THE SIGNAL's mix of content.

Dionysis was the drummer for Galax, Va.-based band Play War from 1991-1994, and the vocalist for Independence, Va.-based Cryptameria from 1998-2001.

"I love underground music because that's where the true music scene lives and breathes,” Dionysis says. “Commercial music in the 21st Century is so mechanical, processed and manufactured that it feels fake."

He looks to the underground for innovation and inspiration. “It is not from major record labels or popular radio stations that you will hear the best music. It is on the small stages in the dingy dives and hole in the wall clubs that you will experience some of the most incredible music in the world.”

There's passion in the underground music scene, he says. His job at The Signal will be to show readers “the path to discovering some amazing sights and sounds.”

Also graciously volunteering to help out with music coverage is Joey Davis of Galax, as passionate an underground music fan and promoter as you'll ever meet. He and wife Jess Zuniga Davis will be attending some local shows and we'll feature some of Jess' awesome photography, as well.

And, thanks to Scotty McMeans for helping get The Signal's music coverage started. Scotty had to leave the post because of a brutal work schedule at his paying gig, but we appreciate the contributions.